Paul Graham, hacker

Upcoming Econtalk guest? I checked the link to amazon, it looks interesting. I'd still like a podcast on the rational behind the Stimulus and now talks of the second stimulus.

Do you know if there is an empirical work done on the stimulus of 2007? Did it do anything?

Russ,

There is an email address on that website you linked.

http://www.paulgraham.com/info.html

Russ,

Consider me excited if this is about having him as a guest on Econtalk.

a more relevant website for him is for the micro-vc firm he founded:

http://ycombinator.com/
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Russ, I am fan of you and Paul. Are you asking because he mentions in the book that the best programmers are libertarians?

Maybe Paul is hard to reach by email because his inbox is full of spam.

Paul's essay Mind the Gap--about income variation, not the London Tube--might be of interest to many Cafe Hayek readers.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before my love for programming in lisp and the free market intersected. Still is a little weird. Anyway, I made a post on http://news.ycombinator.com/newest that linked to this article. Maybe that will work.

Good luck,

Tom

I'm a big fan of Paul Graham; his essays are just splendid.

His "Inequality and Risk" essay is one of my all-time favorites:

http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

So let's be clear what reducing economic inequality means. It is identical with taking money from the rich.

When you transform a mathematical expression into another form, you often notice new things. So it is in this case. Taking money from the rich turns out to have consequences one might not foresee when one phrases the same idea in terms of "reducing inequality."

The problem is, risk and reward have to be proportionate.

cryptograham at gmail dot com

The Left may have the arts and evening news. The Right may have talk radio. But libertarians have always been disproportionately represented on the Internet.

Why?

re: "inequality and risk"

This explains very clearly why Google, Microsoft, Intel, WalMart and ... are American companies.

They dominate the globe in their respective industries and they were founded in the last few decades.

What comparable companies are from Europe? None. Even Nokia is over a hundred years old.

Excellent!! Hackers and Painters is an inspiring book.

tom harvey:

"Maybe Paul is hard to reach by email because his inbox is full of spam."

Paul Graham? Spam?

I suspect he gets less than the rest of us:


http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html